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Margaret Mitchell House & Museum

The Margaret Mitchell House & Museum was founded in 1990 to save and preserve the house where Margaret Mitchell lived and wrote the book Gone With the Wind. On August 1, 2004, the Margaret Mitchell House merged with the Atlanta History Center (AHC). As a result, the AHC oversees the operation of the two-acre site which includes the Margaret Mitchell House, Gone With the Wind Movie Museum, Visitors Center, Museum Shop and The Center for Southern Literature. Tours of the exhibits tell the story of Margaret Mitchell beyond the book and movie, including her journalism career, philanthropy and family history. The Center for Southern Literature, the programming division of the MMH, preserves the legacy of Margaret Mitchell through weekly literary author programs, creative writing classes for adults and youth, and the administration of the PEN/Faulkner Writers in Schools Program.

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Kristin Gore: Sammy's House

Wed, Jul 18, 2007

Kristin Gore, Al Gore's daughter, discusses her novel about life in the White House. The heroine of her bestselling debut, *Sammy's Hill*, returns in *Sammy's House*. Samantha Joyce is many things: health care policy advisor, hypochondriac, lover of Japanese Fighting Fish, and of Charlie Lawton, her Washington Post reporter boyfriend.

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Can We Talk about Race?

Thu, May 17, 2007

Spelman College President Beverly Daniel Tatum sounds a warning call about the increasing but underreported resegregation of America, on the 53rd anniversary of the *Brown v. Board of Education* decision. A self-described "integration baby," Tatum sees our growing isolation from one another as deeply problematic, and she believes that schools can be key institutions for forging connections across the racial division. In this book, Tatum examines some of the most resonant issues in American education and race relations. As an acknowledged expert on race relations in the classroom and the development of racial identity, she participated in President Clinton's "Dialogue on Race" and lectures extensively throughout the country. Tatum is also the writer of *Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?* and *Assimilation Blues*.

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Billie Letts: Made in the USA

Thu, Jul 17, 2008

Billie Letts discusses her new novel, *Made in the U.S.A.*, which is the story of two children who must discover how cruel, unfair, and frightening the world is before they come to a place they can finally call home.

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Laura Claridge: Emily Post

Wed, Nov 5, 2008

Author Laura Claridge discusses *Emily Post: Daughter of the Gilded Age, Mistress of American Manners*, the first authoritative biography of the woman who created a standard of behavior for America. In this biography, Claridge explores why, after 50 years and a checkered past, Emily Post still has an enormous influence on how we think society should behave.

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Roy Blount Jr: Alphabet Juice

Fri, Nov 21, 2008

Roy Blount Jr. discusses his *Alphabet Juice* book, which celebrates “the juju of language”, the sonic and kinetic energies of words, and an exploration of our language. He uses sources as venerable as the Oxford English Dictionary and as hip as UrbanDictionary.com.

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Curtis Roosevelt: Too Close to the Sun

Wed, Nov 19, 2008

The oldest grandson of US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Curtis Roosevelt, discusses his new book, *Too Close to the Sun: Growing up in the Shadow of my Grandparents, Franklin and Eleanor*. He talks about FDR’s lively bedside breakfast meetings and the more adult observations of the tension that riddled the family while he was a teenager.

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What Is Team Trivia?

Tue, Feb 5, 2008

Author and all-time *Jeopardy!* champion Ken Jennings poses brain-teasing questions from his new release, *Ken Jennings's Trivia Almanac: 8,888 Questions in 365 Days*. Like a farmer's almanac, the trivia almanac devotes a page to every day of the year: but instead of predicting the weather, it offers trivia questions pegged to oddball historic events that occurred on that date.

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Randall Kennedy: Sellout

Wed, Jan 30, 2008

Author Randall Kennedy grapples with a stigma of our racial discourse that is a subject of much anxiety and acrimony in black America: "selling out," or racial betrayal. The new book, which comes in the wake of his controversial national best-seller, *Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word*, shows how usage of the word "sellout" bedevils blacks and whites, while elucidating the effects it has on individuals and on our society as a whole.

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The Warrior: A Mother's Story of a Son at War

Thu, Apr 24, 2008

Frances Richey discusses her book of poetry, *The Warrior: A Mother's Story of a Son at War*, a personal exploration of the daily feelings a mother experiences while her child goes off to war and a family's struggle to overcome ideological differences in the face of a greater cause.

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What Women Want

Tue, Jun 17, 2008

Writers Karen Essex, Sheila Weller, and Katie Hickman discuss their new titles and explore what women really want to read during their summer vacations.

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